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The science paper THEY TRIED TO SILENCE!
There’s a view that the anti-GM movement is like a mirror of the right-wing anti-science movement against climate change. It’s certainly
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What does a tree cost, and what is its value?
“You know the cost of everything and the value of nothing,” was a common insult when I was a child. However, some environmentalists say that it’
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Competitive conifers prefer an uneven canopy
LIDAR survey of forests in Borneo and Japan shows that in the canopy conifers and broadleaf trees are battling to extract the most energy from the sun.
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Warming in the forests
While looking for something else, I found a couple of papers in JXB and Forestry that caught my eye. The popular expectation is that more CO2
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Success through Diversity: Why mixtures produce more stable yields than monocultures
There’s a paper published through Open Access this month that highlights the benefits of diversity in growing crops, but with a new angle. Diversity as
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Creating a Buzz but is it worth it?
We’ve been experimenting with what we can do with articles, and our latest experiment happened earlier this week. 7 Deadly Secrets of Carnivorous Plants is
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Adapted to kill: How the pitcher plant traps its prey
When it comes to carnivorous plants it’s Venus Flytraps that get the most attention, with their snapping jaws. Bladderworts have stunningly fast traps. Sundews glisten
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The American Chestnut Returns?
There were a couple of stories in the Atlantic a few months ago on the American Chestnut, Castanea dentata. The tree used to be abundant across
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Can conservation kill?
Normally when someone asks a dramatic question in a headline the answer is no. This time though it’s different. A paper in the new open-
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Do pollinators drive the evolution of flowers?
Angiosperms, the flowering plants, are the astonishingly diverse. But what drives the selection pressures to create this diversity? One explanation is the Grant-Stebbins model. This
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An update on grass-free lawns
We blogged earlier this year about Lionel Smith’s project developing grass-free lawns. He’s uploaded a long video revisiting one of his lawns a
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Annals of Botany, now with all images FREE!
Looking for an image? A recent upgrade to Annals of Botany means that you can now access images from published papers without charge.